Improvement in type-setting machines



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A. C. RICHARDS. TYPE-SEITING MACHINE.

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Patented. Nov. 30, 1876-.

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TYPE-SETTING MACHINE.

Patented Nov. 30,1875.

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N. PETERS. FHQTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

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AUGUSTUS o. RICHARDS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-SETTING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,593, dated November30, 1875; application filed February 2, 1875.

CASE A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS 0. RICE- ARDS, of the city, county,-andState of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inType-Setting Machines, of which the following is a specification:

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-Figure 1 represents a plan or top view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view of the receiving mouthand channel in a larger scale than the previous figures. Fig. 4 is avertical section of the parts represented by Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sideView of the same in a different position. Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9 aredifferent views of the typecases. Fig. 10 is a longitudinal section ofthe key-board.

" Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to that class of typesetting machines in whichtwo converging belts are employed, which move at a different speed fromthe carrying-apron, and serve to discharge the types, in connection withthe carrying-apron, into the proper position within a channel providedfor their reception.

My invention consists in the combination, with the type-receivingchannel, of an oscillating finger, an inclined plane, and a vibratingstop, whereby each type is raised to an upright position as it reachesthe receiving-chair nel. The type are compelled to pass successivelyinto the receiving-channel, all of which will be hereinafter described,and specifically pointed out in the claim.

.In the drawing, the letter A designates a frame, which forms thebearings for two rollers, B B, round which extends an endless apron, O.The frame and apron are, by preference, placed in an inclined position,as shown in Fig. 2. With said apron are combined two belts, D D, whichrun over pulleys E E, situated above the apron and close to its surface, so that the edges of the belts move in close proximity to thesurface of the apron. In order to prevent the inner strands of the beltsfrom rising and from canting over, flanged rails a are applied, whichcatch over the upper edges of said belts. The pulleys E E are soarranged that the belts D D converge toward the receiving type-channelF, situated at the lower part of the apron O. The converging belts D Dare geared together with the carrying-apron C, so that they move withsaid type slides down over an inclined plane,

1?, (best seen in Figs. 4-and 5,) which is fastened in front of andclose to the lower roller B. Beneath this inclined plane is situated afinger, c, which receives an oscillating motion by a cam, 01, and whichis arranged at the mouth of the receiving type-channel'F. When thisfinger is turned back to the position shown in Fig. '4, a type, slidingdown over the inclined plane b, is received by the outer edge of saidfinger, and, as the finger rises to the position shown in Fig. '5, thetype is brought I in an upright position, and at the same time it isforced into the receiving type-channel. With the inclined plane b iscombined a stop, e, whichvreceives a vibrating motion by a cam,

f, (see Fig. 5,) the motion of which is so timed that no type ispermitted to slide down over the inclined plane while the finger c is inits forward position, and when the finger has turned back to theposition shown in Fig. 4 and a type has dropped down, the stop 0immediately closes, and thereby the types are compelled to slide downover the inclined plane in succession, and an undue accumulation oftypes at the month of the receiving type-channel is avoided. The cams dand f are mounted on a shaft, 9, which is geared together with the lowerroller of the carryingapron, (seeFig. 1,) and the finger c oscillates ona rod, h, while the stop 6 has its bearing on a rod, i. The cam 01 actson a pin,j, se:

cured in the tail-end of the finger, and this pin is held in contactwith the cam bya spring, 7c. The cam facts on a pin, 1, secured in thetail-end of the stop 0, and a spring, m, serves to keep said pin incontact with the surface of the cam. (See Figs. 3 and 5.) The types tobe set are taken from a series of cases, G, which are placed at thehead? of the carrying-apron on an angular or circular line, so that thedistances from the several cases to the mouth of the receivingtypechannel are as near as possible alike, and that the time requiredfor each type from the moment when it has been discharged from its caseuntil it reaches the receiving type-chad nel will beuniform, or nearlyso.

The type-cases consist of narrow channels just widc enough to receivethe types. One side of each case is somewhat shorter than the other, andat the bottom end of the long side is formed a sectional lip, n,projecting toward the short side, the distance from the upper surface ofsaid lip to the bottom edge of the short side of the ease beinga littlelarger than the thickness otfthe types coutat'ned in the case, so that,if the types in a case are permitted to sink down upon said lip, thelowest type can be pushed out beneath the edge'ofthe short side of thecase.

,To'the outside of the long side of each case is attached a gate, 0,which swings on a pivot,

1), Figs. Z and 8, and the bottom edge of this gate is bent inwardtoform a sectional lip, q, the sections of which, when the gate isclosed, project between the sections of the lip n, so that when the gateis being closed the lowest type in the case (which at that timerestsupon the lipn) will be pushed out, and then the remaining types aresupported by the lip q. (See Fig. 7.) If the gate is then thrown open,the types in the case sink down upon the lip it. (See Fig. 8.) On theedge of each gate is formed a fork, 1', Fig. 6, and with this forkengages a finger, s, which projects from arock-shaft, k, that extendsfrom the inner side of the key-board H, (see Figs. 1 and 10,) and isacted upon by one of the keys K. This action may be direct, or the keysmay be made to act by means of hell crank-levers u upon slides e, whichengage-with cranks or fingers formed on or secured to the rock-shafts k,as shown in Fig. 10. The gates are closed as and for the purposedescribed.

by means of springsw, which may be made to act on the slides '12 or onthe rock-shaft 1k- Whenever one of the keys is depressed, the gate ofthe corresponding type-case is thrown open, and when the key is releasedthe gate closes, and the lowest type in the case is thrown outanddeposited on thecarryingof types will'take place over the stop e,or

over the mouth of the receiving type'ch'annel. If this precaution istaken, each type will be deposited in thereceiving type-channelin theproper position without fail, andthe operation of setting types canbelcarriedhon with great rapidity. y 1

I do not, in this application, claim the cons verging belts, nor anyfeature other than the oscillating finger, inclined plane, and vibratingstop, as such otherfeatures may constitute the subject-matterof aseparateapplicar tion for Letters Patent.

What I claim as new, and desireto secure i r by LettersPatent, is- H 1The combination, with thetyPe-receiving channel F, of the oscillating,finger c, inclined plane b, and vibrating stop a, for preventing thetype sliding down the inclined plane while the oscillating finger isdelivering the type received into the type-channel, substantially Intestimony that I claim the foregoing II have hereunto set my handthis22d day tr January, 1875. t

A. o. RICHARDS. 1 Witnesses: 3

W. HAUFF,

E. F. KASTENHUBER.

